Queensland has a dynamic knowledge-based economy which is stimulating growth in the transformative and innovative technology industries. With strong commercial expertise, high quality university research and development capability, a forward thinking government, the state is fast becoming a global technology hub.

There is strong global appetite for Queensland’s proven innovative solutions as organisations around the world are increasingly looking for smarter ways and new technologies to improve efficiencies across their business.

The state has a strong history in fostering innovation and recognising this as an important factor in driving economic prosperity and has invested heavily in science and innovation over many years. As a result, Queensland has developed a strong pool of talent and a growing industry of commercialised technologies that are either investment and/or export ready.

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If you are a Queensland technology company or an innovative Queensland company, the US market is unquestionably the market you should be considering for exporting your services or your product offering.
Without question, the US market is the largest market for the adoption and deployment of innovative technologies across all its industries.

So that can range from agriculture technologies through to mining and resources technologies, through to IT and software.

The U.S. software industry alone is expected to grow at a compounded average rate of about 5.2% and cloud computing, enterprise data, software security and big data are the clear sub-sectors within the software that are going to see even greater growth for the future to come.

So Queensland technology companies should be considered in the US market.

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Other opportunities that we think of is urban development. It is a new area, so as China will be looking for expertise from Queensland and the services and the products such as measurements for environment pollution. And also for the urban planning and Queensland has very high skills in that area for that one.

Of course there are a lot of investment inquiries and interest from China to the areas such as tourism facilities, and hotels, and multi uses of buildings and the theme park for instance. That’s all of the new areas in China for investment.

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Japan is a country of innovation and 25% of the high tech products in the world are actually still produced in Japan. So, we see a huge opportunity between Queensland and Japan to collaborate on the commercialization of research.

Advanced Queensland policy which has been launched by the Queensland government really captures such varieties of opportunities.

For example robotics, biomass research, electric vehicle, renewable energy, those are the new industries that Japan and Queensland can work together on, to bring more ideas and innovations into the commercial world and I think Japan and Queensland can be a really good partnership to work together and Trade and Investment Queensland have contact in both ends of the world.